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From Denizens to Citizens: Forging a Precariat Charter

open access: yes, 2015
Today’s migrants are an integral part of the global precariat, this chapter argues. This involves millions of people flitting among insecure jobs without an occupational identity or secure access to social benefits. Precarians are ‘denizens’, rather than
Standing, Guy
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The artistic precariat

Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2012
This article examines how some artists have collectively negotiated precarity in Toronto’s cultural sector during the last 2 decades through two arts experiments: the Waterfront Trail Artists’ Association and Don Blanche. The social scientific scholarly literature on arts funding, precarious employment and community economies provides an entry point ...
Alison Bain, Heather McLean
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From “the Chosen” to the Precariat:

2018
Beginning in the 1970s, local boosters in the U.S. South offered lucrative incentives to attract foreign manufacturing firms, who, in turn, promised to uplift working-class southerners’ lives and modernize benighted rural areas with state-of-the-art “greenfield” plants and cutting-edge production techniques.
David M. Anderson, Andrew C. McKevitt
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From the Subaltern to the Precariat

boundary 2, 2015
Precarity is a double condition. On the one hand, it denotes a socioeconomic position of insecurity and poverty, often particularly associated with statelessness. On the other, as is here argued, it denotes an anthropological or existential condition, one for which human beings are constitutionally unable to fully ground themselves in the world and for
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The First Precariat?

International Labor and Working-Class History, 2017
The transformation of global capitalism, labor, and class relations in our own day is having a marked effect on how we study those subjects historically. Yet, as happens repeatedly in our historical discipline, insights gained from the juxtaposition and recognition of deep structural affinities between the present and the past also carry the risk of a ...
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China’s precariats

Globalizations, 2018
This essay offers a stylized account of the trajectory of precarious labour in China over the past seven decades and identifies the various contested terrains constitutive of its politics.
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Privileged Precariat

2021
White workers occupied a unique social position in apartheid-era South Africa. Shielded from black labour competition in exchange for support for the white minority regime, their race-based status effectively concealed their class-based vulnerability. Centred on this entanglement of race and class, Privileged Precariat examines how South Africa's white
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Pedagogy of the Precariat

2015
In this article, Henry discusses his ideas with Petar Jandrić.
Giroux, H., Jandrić, P.
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Workfare and the precariat

Soundings, 2011
Workfare is the wrong policy response to the insecurities and inequalities inherent in a flexible market economy. It does nothing to counter these insecurities and inequalities and represents an abandonment of universalistic and solidaristic principles.
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Precariat

2023
Arne L. Kalleberg, Kevin Hewison
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